Hopper and James Dean
I had always viewed Hopper as a typical journeyman supporting actor, the crazy drug-addled hippy that said "man" a lot, until seeing him in an hour-long episode of the Twilight Zone called "He's Alive" (1963) where he plays a neo-Nazi leader. It's a juicy role; he gets to deliver impassioned…

(1) Which version of "The Thin Red Line" are you referring to, 1964 or 1998?

The 1970's was an incredibly ugly decade—both in things like ugly fashions, cars, interior decorating and also in human ugliness like serial killers, drug use, and Jimmy Carter's bleeding heartism. But it was also a period when people were looking forward in a progressive sense, planning for a better/utopian future. …

SlappyMcGee is right. 99% of those movie polemics are ultra leftist and when a non-leftist one comes along Steven Hyden thinks it's the most infuriating thing ever. Typical closed-mindedness of the self-styled "liberals".

*
Is money made by the man who invents a motor at the expense of those who did not invent it?

Queequeg
Over the past 15 years lots of dumb kiddies started getting tattoos making the shock value disappear. If you want characters with truly memorable tattoos, you need to look at older movies. AV Club got many these (Night of the Hunter, Illustrated Man, etc.) but missed one of the biggies: Queequeg from "Moby…

There's a lot of groupthink stupidity that gets passed around on this website. "The Illustrated Man" (1969) is an excellent movie from a golden era of intelligent science fiction movies, which makes it better than almost anything scifi in the past three decades.

"…or a clusterfuck of cliches"
The intention of "Fire and Ice" was to be the movie equivalent of a collection of Frazetta paintings. It's a series of short films that each tell a story, or hint at a story, like a fantasy painting might. All the "short films" involve the same general characters and setting, so it's…

"70 million shy of the entire population of the US"
Sadly, you have grossly underestimated the population of the United States, which is 307 million. Keep in mind that the Soylent Green level (from the original book) was 344 million. Hey, but what's 7 million more Mexicans illegally crossing the border…

Based on your description of 100 Rogues
* turn-based
* descend multiple randomly generated levels
* increasingly tougher enemies
* bring back Satan's head
* character classes, item shops
* grid-based movement
* limited visibility

Very good point about the topic being "memorable" deaths and not just "sad" deaths, and a generally good list.

I've been trying to find/remember the name of this incredibly sad story for years now, so thanks.

I say the same thing about lawyers that get into politics.

Physically, John Faucette was about as black as Steve Martin in "The Jerk," meaning he was a few shades lighter than Catherine Zeta-Jones or Clive Owen. Makes me wonder if the whole "black thing" was an angle he used to try and sell his work (to bleeding-heart white publishers) or a rationalization for his failure.

"The Prism's cover … don't really represent the contents found therein"

I was also surprised to see Phipps lump a literary figure like Philip K. Dick together with a commercial hack like Koontz. Saying you've "never [read] Koontz" is like saying you've never "[dined] at McDonald's"; the phrasing is too refined.

You forgot "Disco Hustle" —

More depressing than starving kids is the fact that there are adults out there who can't feed themselves but are stupid enough and inconsiderate enough to have children that they also cannot feed. And this when the world is already horrifically overpopulated.

A biopic about Linda Lovelace isn't necessarily about her, but could be about the time (1970's), the place (San Francisco), or changes in pornography and what this says about changes in society in general (fall of the Roman empire). You may be surprised to learn that "The Hustler" is no more about pool playing than…

Tasha Robinson's tip is EXTREMELY useful —- works on other features like "Big Box of Paperbacks," too. Yet I was completely unaware of this trick until reading about it moments ago; I bet not many AV Club readers are aware if it either. AV Club needs to get the word out.